Short or long sentences?¶

General¶

Making sentences shorter or longer can make them:

Serves the needs of both writer and reader. The writer by compelling him to examine his thought, the reader by letting him into the writer’s thought
Long sentences are writer oriented
Cumbersome to follow, but the long sentence clearly shows the connection between the base clause and additional clauses/phrase (maybe better than separated in the paragraph)
Could use less words to condense the same idea, than several short sentences, with the tradeoff of cognitive load
Effective to describe a process
Useful to follow something that unfolds in time
A flow that unfolds surprising.